Behind the Scenes: The Technology Driving Television-Quality Live Streaming at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
White Papers The Democratic National Convention, held August 25-28 in Denver, Colorado, officially kicked off the Obama-Biden 2008 presidential campaign. High-definition live streaming at DemConvention.com helped connect voters with the message from the...
[January 21, 2009, 0:00]
US joins European cybercrime convention
News The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime calls on countries to co-ordinate international law to fight cybercrime. The Convention has now been signed by 43 EU member states and 15 other parties including America.
[October 2, 2006, 13:30]
US joins European cybercrime convention
Talkback It's novel that Mr. McCormack of the US State Department is offering up assistance to places like France when we in the US can’t get our e-passport issues resolved http://www.iwantmyess.com/? p=80 Sure we all want to be protected from cybercrime...
[October 2, 2006, 20:16]
Chatroom Danger: Britain breaks UN pledge to protect kids online
News Britain is in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child by failing to provide proper protection to children online, according to legal experts. The UN Convention declares children should have access to all forms of mass...
[March 15, 2001, 12:40]
Supercomm diversifies as telcos suffer
News Communications equipment makers gather in Atlanta on Monday for their largest annual convention amid fresh signs that their most important customers -- corporations, telephone companies and cable providers -- are still pinching pennies.
[June 3, 2003, 12:26]
Events Diary
News E3 '99: LA Convention Centre, LA, USA. JavaOne Developer Conference: Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, USA Networld+Interop '99: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, USA 20-21 Intranet Expo '99: Olympia 2, London
[April 26, 1999, 6:00]
Council of Europe approves cybercrime treaty
News The Council of Europe Ministers' Deputies has approved the first international convention on cybercrime, which will set a common criminal policy on the misuse of computer networks and electronic information for terrorist or illegal activity.
[September 21, 2001, 14:09]
Events Diary
News E3 '99: LA Convention Centre, LA, USA. JavaOne Developer Conference: Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, USA Networld+Interop '99: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, USA 20-21 Intranet Expo '99: Olympia 2, London
[April 19, 1999, 6:10]
Surveillance: Is e-privacy a human right?
News Plans to intercept email and Internet calls contravene the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) according to a government report. The government denies any breach of European law and claims no case going to the European Convention has found...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Events Diary
News E3 '99: LA Convention Centre, LA, USA. JavaOne Developer Conference: Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, USA Networld+Interop '99: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, USA 20-21 Intranet Expo '99: Olympia 2, London.
[April 12, 1999, 7:56]
Microsoft drops .Net name from server brand
News Microsoft is introducing a new branding convention for its server-software products to synch up with next week's launch of Windows Server 2003. By creating the Windows Server System naming convention for all its server products, Microsoft hopes to...
[April 17, 2003, 8:05]
Microsoft, Red Hat argue open source
News Red Hat and others at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention gave Microsoft a hostile reception. Craig Mundie, senior vice president of advanced strategies at Microsoft, said in a speech at the convention in San Diego that his company is embracing...
[July 27, 2001, 10:45]
Events diary
News 1 -5 Seybold Seminars Boston/Publishing: Hynes Convention Centre, Boston, USA JavaOne Developer Conference: Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, USA Networld+Interop '99: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, USA
[March 1, 1999, 5:36]
RIP Bill comes under fresh attack
News A forthcoming government bill concerning Internet communication directly contravenes the European Convention of Human Rights, according to a report published on Wednesday by leading civil liberty rights groups.
[March 22, 2000, 11:50]
Events Diary
News JavaOne Developer Conference: Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, USA Networld+Interop '99: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, USA E3 '99: LA Convention Centre, LA, USA. 11 Linux -- the way forward: Commonwealth Institute, London
[May 10, 1999, 7:00]
Europeans vote against software patents
News European representatives on Wednesday voted against plans to change a European Patent Convention which prohibits software patents being granted by the European Patent Office. The European Patent Office has in fact granted 13,000 software patents in...
[November 23, 2000, 16:48]
IT patent issues simplified for businesses
News The revised European Patent Convention took effect this week, bringing in a system designed to substantially simplify patent issues for businesses, according to the European Patent Office. The updated Patent Convention has been 10 years in the...
[December 14, 2007, 15:28]
Information commissioner slams European data initiative
News The information commissioner is warning the Council of Europe to take a "proportionate" approach towards the interception and retention of all electronic communications contained within the Cybercrime Convention.
[July 13, 2001, 16:44]
Windows software by any other name?
News With its next-generation Windows and Office products, Microsoft is expected to adopt a new and untried naming convention, according to sources. Ever since the Redmond, Washington-based company moved to a product-naming convention based on dates...
[February 2, 2001, 16:00]
Mobile makers sign up for recycling
News The manufacturers will work with an initiative by the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) called the Basel Convention, to tackle the growing mobile phone mountain generated by out-of-date equipment.
[December 20, 2002, 11:22]



